This story appears in the August 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The thing Silang is searching for, on hands and knees, 15,000 feet above sea level on the Tibetan plateau, is ...

Most of Asia's major rivers find their source on the Tibetan plateau. However as the global temperature rises, Tibet’s glaciers are melting and grassland permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate.

Sogyal Lakar, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher accused of widespread physical and sexual abuse, has died aged 72. Lakar, better known as Sogyal Rinpoche, sold millions of books and was widely seen as ...

If you cannot defeat a view, then you are compelled to accept it. The central purposes of Tibetan monastic debate are to defeat misconceptions, to establish a defensible view, and to clear away ...

A small community of Tibetan Muslims have returned to Srinagar On his latest visit to Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, Andrew Whitehead came across a little-known community ...

Yet, for more than 10,000 years, Tibetan women living on the high Tibetan Plateau have not only survived but thrived in that environment. The findings, Beall said, not only underscore the ...

More than a decade has passed since I was last there, after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and a previous civil uprising in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. Martial law was in effect then ...

Tibetan Group in India Protests Against China and Human Rights Situation in Homeland NEW DELHI (AP) — Dozens of Tibetans living in India protested outside China's embassy on Tuesday against the ...

As well as being a ski resort, Morzine is a proper Alpine town that has a year-round life stretching far beyond having winter fun in the mountains that surround it. That said, winter sports ...

By Annie Aguiar The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at the Rubin Museum, a centerpiece of its extensive collection of art from Himalayan Asia, will move to the Brooklyn Museum for six years starting ...

Find more of the best restaurants in Morzine here. Price level ... There are daily specials like a Tibetan lunch of curries and dhal. Other typical offerings include gnocchi, or a 600g T-bone steak of ...